First post, by LoudLad
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I've been lurking for a while now but only now decided to sign up.
My dad helps run a local museum, and they have a number of old computers of various types, but none of them are on and available to play with. I went up to the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge a couple of months ago and took some pictures of how everything was setup, and soon enough the higher-ups at the museum have agreed that they should try something similar. Obviously they've recently shut their doors during the human malware, but that just gives me a good amount of time to work on getting this thing running again.
I got this at my last job, a Gateway 2000 4DX-33 that had been collecting dust for decades (I had literally put my name on it to make in case they throw it out). They had to remove the HDD and RAM for security reasons, and I had managed to replace the RAM, but not the HDD. I know compact flash is a potential replacement for IDE HDDs, but I've heard that there are some compatibility issues with certain IDE to CF converters. Anyone know of a good broad-range compatible converter, or better yet, has done similar to their Gateway2000 machine?
I have a pentium II in the garage which I'll take out and clean up once I have this one fixed.